The City Museum and the future of the city

Claudia Pecoraro & Gloria Romanello

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. The case study of Rhome - Migrant eyes and memories.
Claudia Pecoraro is a Researcher and Curator. She started researching about museums after her degree in Humanities and Archaeology, when she specialized with a dissertation on the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in France in 2006 and has since gained many experiences abroad. For two years, she has been working on Rhome – Migrant eyes and memories, a research project in social inclusion within museums, focusing on the city’s new inhabitants from around the world. She has been the curator of several participatory projects and exhibitions of contemporary art. She is currently working for the Regional Ministry of Culture in Rome. Gloria Romanello is a Researcher and Consultant. She received a PhD in Culture and Heritage Management from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and a post-secondary academic degree in History of art (Italy). Her researches focus most

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After studying Bachelor in Classical Archaeology in Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, I attended archaeological excavations such as Smyrna and Pergamon. I studied at the University of Bonn as an Erasmus exchange student. I finished my Master's at the University of Maastricht in Arts and Heritage: Policy, Management and Education. I did my internship in Museum Rotterdam and wrote my masters thesis about the museum's community practice Authentic Rotterdam Heritage.

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